Resolutions: February report
Mar. 1st, 2026 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeBooks. My ambitious plan for January worked! I did manage to read three books from the backlog: Lippmann’s Public Opinion, Dewey’s The Public and its Problems, and also Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.
For March, I’m going to commit to reading the first 100 pages of each of two books: Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid and Rosenstock-Huessy’s Out of Revolution. Then I’ll either finish one of those (they are both very long), or another book from the stack, or the second book in the Jemisin series.
Boxes. This resolution continues to be a struggle. On four days I worked on boxes, and although I didn’t finish two boxes per se, I did get through at least half of three boxes and some miscellany. And although I did work on it roughly once a week, I was still working on it yesterday until there was too much dust in the air. My plan is to finish the box I was working on yesterday, soon, and then to do two more boxes or box-equivalents in March.
Beyond Beef. This resolution was “Beans” until I discovered last month that I was having issues with trying to eat beans for their protein. The bigger concern I have is that I need to eat five or six small meals a day to keep my blood sugar from dropping, with a good source of protein with every meal, and this current works out to a gently fried egg with breakfast, two meals with very lean beef, and two or three snacks with cheese. The point of this resolution is to eat a bit less beef. If beans aren’t going to work, I suppose I should try substituting some fish or a more nutritious cheese-based meal. In February I had salmon once (fine but expensive) and prawns twice, and I tried to revive my risotto habit – but as I’ve reported here, the tyramine levels in both romano and parmesan were too much. For March, my plan is to eat more fish and/or more cheese-with-real-vegetables.
For March, I’m going to commit to reading the first 100 pages of each of two books: Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid and Rosenstock-Huessy’s Out of Revolution. Then I’ll either finish one of those (they are both very long), or another book from the stack, or the second book in the Jemisin series.
Boxes. This resolution continues to be a struggle. On four days I worked on boxes, and although I didn’t finish two boxes per se, I did get through at least half of three boxes and some miscellany. And although I did work on it roughly once a week, I was still working on it yesterday until there was too much dust in the air. My plan is to finish the box I was working on yesterday, soon, and then to do two more boxes or box-equivalents in March.
Beyond Beef. This resolution was “Beans” until I discovered last month that I was having issues with trying to eat beans for their protein. The bigger concern I have is that I need to eat five or six small meals a day to keep my blood sugar from dropping, with a good source of protein with every meal, and this current works out to a gently fried egg with breakfast, two meals with very lean beef, and two or three snacks with cheese. The point of this resolution is to eat a bit less beef. If beans aren’t going to work, I suppose I should try substituting some fish or a more nutritious cheese-based meal. In February I had salmon once (fine but expensive) and prawns twice, and I tried to revive my risotto habit – but as I’ve reported here, the tyramine levels in both romano and parmesan were too much. For March, my plan is to eat more fish and/or more cheese-with-real-vegetables.
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Date: 2026-03-03 02:31 pm (UTC)I like the idea of an egg. Sometimes I have walnuts for protein.
But it seems I often resort back to chicken.